taylor was so real for saying “AND I HOPE ITS SHITTY IN THE BLACK DOG” because the black dog is a symbolic of her depression and her grief and the memories that are haunting her and she’s screaming at this person who hurt her that they’re just as affected. that when they’re trying to move on they’re just and pained by their breakup to enjoy it and they’re forced to remember her and hurting her or being hurt by her and hoping that even after they’ve parted ways they’re still together on the same page in moving on even though that they broke up because they weren’t on the same page and he didn’t even notice her still have access to his “find my friends” location

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Taylor Swift watching her ex on a location app because he forgot to turn it off I'm obsessed with you admitting that to the entire world.

and I hope it’s SHITTY IN THE BLACK DOG

me since april 19th

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

there’s something so painstakingly beautiful about the way taylor (literally) screams when she sings ‘cause old habits die screaming’ in the black dog and how it purposefully sounds painfully aching each chorus until the very end when she just whispers it because she tried and tried and tried to make him hear her until she just gave up :’(

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going from “chains around my demons” to “and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons, even if i die screaming” is such a punch in the gut

The fact that the chorus of The Black Dog has both "I just don't understand how you don't miss me in The Black Dog" (a public place, one where you can get drunk and lose all of your inhibitions) and "I just don't understand how you don't miss me in the shower" (a private place where you are at your most vulnerable)

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File Name: The Black Dog

[speculating] the events of black dog happening… breakup the week later…. the black dog being recorded 6 weeks later

“six weeks of breathing clean air, i still miss the smoke, were you making fun of me, with some esoteric joke? now i wanna sell my house, and set fire to all my clothes, and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons, even if i die screaming, and i hope you hear it”

the black dog is such classic taylor songwriting - starting with a small detail/memory (seeing her ex visit a bar) and then it spirals into a wider recollection of the relationship. the flip from 'magic fabric of our dreaming' to 'tragic fabric of our dreaming' because those dreams are now ruined. the disconnect between being so far apart that she's stalking his location, to once showering together while she was shaking. the switch in the last chorus to him being a black dog, leaving with his tail between his legs. i am simply OBSESSED